Heart of Darkness
Describe in detail the setting where the story begins?
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The novel opens with our narrator onboard a cruising yawl on the Thames River, awaiting the docking of the ship in the " biggest, and the greatest, town on earth", London. The ship is surrounded by barges, the air is dark, and the atmosphere is mournful.... gloomy.